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For the fourth time, an Italian court is to determine the fate of Amanda Knox. Italy s top judges have to decide whether to up crocs hausschuhe hold the Seattle woman s murder conviction. Their decision could spark a fierce extradition fight between Italy and the U.S., reports 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant, who has covered the story from the beginning.Even after all these years, the case continues to draw worldw salomon xt 6 ide attention, inspiring everything from books to movies. Knox, however, has tried to move past the painful experience. She s newly engaged and works as a freelance write adiletten original r in Seattle, though she s reportedly seeing a therapist for PTSD, a clear sign this ongoing ordeal continues to haunt her.Knox s personal absence didn t stop media from packing into an Italian courtroom Wednesday morning. The Supreme Court could decide once and for all whether she is to remain a free woman as soon as Friday.It s the latest chapter in a nearly-eight-year saga involving allegations of satanic sex rituals, murder and lies. It is a complicated story and a lot of Italians believe a guilty girl was sent back to the United States, Newsweek national politics correspondent Nina Burleigh said. To understand the latest twist, one must go back to the beginning: November 2007, when the body of Meredith Kercher was discovered in a pool of blood at the house she shared with Knox. Knox and her then boyfriend, an Italian citizen named Raffaele Sollecito, were seen kissing outside the crime scene in Pe Snwp Top Shark-Catching Nations Accused of Failings
In 30 minutes, it will be over.Years of preparations, arm-twisting, sweet-talking and hopes will be rejected or rewarded Friday when the International Olympic Committee votes to select the host for the 2016 Games.Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo - one by one - will be eliminated in a tense half-hour of successive rounds of secret balloting until one stands alone.Shortly afterward, IOC president Jacques Rogge will break open a sealed envelope containing the winner s name and utter the magic words: The games of the 31st Olympiad are awarded to the stanley cup website city of ... But on the eve of the vote, the IOC s 106 members were, as ever, keeping their thoughts to themselves. Only Tokyo seemed to have fallen out of the running. Otherwise, it was still too close to call between the beaches and bossa nova of Rio, the bustle and Lake Michigan waterfront of Chicago or the European elegance of Madrid. Everyone had reason to be hopeful, none reason to be sure. This is the big question, how will it go said Willi Kaltschmitt, an IOC member since 1988. There have been so many surprises in the past, he said. It s very even at the moment. It all depends what ha stanley thermos ppens in the first round. As cities go out, loyalties will shift. That is where the contest will be won or lost. If Tokyo goes out first, will its supporters swing behind Rio, Madrid or Chicago and by how much for each cups stanley Could Madrid stun front-runners Chicago and Rio in the second round, knocking one of them out, with its seem

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JERUSALEM - Israel and Hamas on Monday accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal meant to halt a monthlong war, signaling an end to the bloodiest round of fighting between the bitter enemies could finally adidas campus 00s be approaching.The sides said a preliminary 72-hour truce was to begin at 8 a.m. 1 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Egypt was then set to host indirect talks crocs to work out a long-term truce over the next three days. At 8 a.m. local time tomorrow a cease-fire starts and Israel will cease all military operations against terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, said Israel yeezy i government spokesman Mark Regev. Israel will honor the cease-fire and will be watching to see if Hamas does to. Fighting in Gaza continues 18 photos A delegation of Palestinian officials from various factions, including Hamas, has been negotiating with Egypt in recent days. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the group had accepted the plan. It s clear now that the interest of all parties is to have a cease-fire, said Bassam Salhi, a member of the Palestinian delegation. It s going to be tough negotiations because Israel has demands too. Several previous cease-fires have collapsed, including a similar plan for a 72-hour truce that broke down last Friday in heavy fighting. Both sides blamed each o Ycbl Poll: Pakistan Tribal Areas Oppose U.S. Strikes
Canada s defense minis stanley cup ter said fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian bomber in the Arctic on the eve of President Barack Obama s visit to Ottawa last week.Peter MacKay said Friday that the bomber never made it into Canadian airspace. But he said two Canadian CF-18 jets met the bomber in international airspace and sent a strong signal that they stanley cup usa should back off. He called the timing of the Feb. 18 incident a strong coincidence. Mr. Obama arrived in Canada the next day. I m not going to stand here and accuse the Russians of having deliberately done this during the presidential visit, but it was a strong coincidence, MacKay said. They met a Russian aircraft that was approaching Canadian airspace, and as they have done in previous occasions they sent very clear signals that are understood, that the aircraft was to turnaround, turn tail, and head back to their airspace, which it did. Soviet aircraft regularly violated North American airspace during the Cold War but stopped after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russian jets began violating North American airspace again several years ago. It s difficult to say whether this was a coincidence or it was an effort on the part of the Russians to perhaps be up to some mischief or cause a bit of a diversion, MacKay said.MacKay said it happened when Canada s security focus would be on Ottawa, but he said resources were not stretched. Last summer, former Canadian foreign affairs minister David Emerson sai

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President-elect Donald Trump wished the Philippines well in its bloody war on drugs during a call with President Rodrigo Duterte Friday, according to statements by the Philippine leader. Duterte said in a video that Mr. Trump was quite sensitive to the nationrsquo controversial drug crackdown, which has resulted in thousands of extrajudicial killings since June, when Duterte first took office. [Trump] wishes me well in my campaign and said that we are doing it as a sovereign nation, the right way, Duterte said of the Friday call, in which he described an animated president-elect. I could sense a good rapport, the Philippines leader said. He was wishing me success in my campaign on the drug problem. He understood the way we are handling it and he said that therersquo nothing wrong in protecting your country. Duterte said he appreciated the call from Mr. Trump -- who Duterte has posited in the past that yeezy 350 he could be friendly with -- and also wished adidas originals the incoming U.S. leader success. During his own air force 1 contentious campaign for the Philippines presidency, Duterte had promised to use law enforcement to hunt down drug traffickers and users, warning the country was at risk to become a narco state. The Philippines deadly drug war 26 photos Ywyi Amnesty Int l: New satellite images show North Korea continues expansion of labor camps
New Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday dismissed efforts by President Mahmoud Abbas to wrest authority from the militant Hamas Cabinet by gr stanley us anting his loyalists new powers over the security forces.The dispute over the security services, along with Abbas insistence that he remain in charge of Palestinian foreign policy, was the latest indication of a burgeoning power struggle between the moderate president and the Hamas government, which took office last week. There are attempts to create parallel frameworks to some ministries in the Pale stanley cup stinian government, Haniyeh said in an interview with The Associated Press at his Gaza City headquarters. But I don t think Abbas can continue this pressure and diminish some of the authorities of this government. Abbas, who favors restarting long-stalled peace talks with Israel, is amassing more power to bypass Hamas new rulers, who have provoked Western threats of an aid cutoff by rejecting Israel s right to exist and refusing to renounce violence. Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings, won Jan. 25 parliamentary elections.Haniyeh said Abbas had assured stanley cup him the security forces would remain under the control of the Hamas-led Cabinet, which, he said, did not take power on the back of a tank but in transparent and fair elections. But hours later, Abbas appointed a longtime ally, Rashid Abu Shbak, to head the three security services that were to be under Hamas control, in addition to

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Johannesburg, South Africamdash; The Biden administration s plan to buy 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses and donate them to the lowest-income nations in the world is part of a global push to give everyone equal access to the vaccine. Experts have warned for months that if more of the global population isn t protected from the virus, it will continue to mutate, threatening everyone with new strains that could resist the vaccines available.But while the U.S. has administered 92 doses per every 100 peopl nike dunk low e, other places around the world are far behind. Not even 1% of the total African population is fully vaccinated, and several countries haven t given any shots a yeezy t all yet. CBS News correspondent Debora Patta reports that in South Africa mdash; one of the wealthiest nations on the continent mdash; just 2.4 doses have been given per 100 residents. U.S. to donate 500 million vaccine doses abroad as Biden kicks off diplomatic tour 02:59 Elderly South Africans are lining up in Soweto and other places to finally get vaccinated, but it s a far cry from the U.S., which is already vaccinating children. And just across the border in the tiny kingdom of Eswatini, some health workers haven t even received a first shot.Nurse Menzi Nkomo rises every morning when the roosters crow. He s trying to stay adidas originals hamburg strong aft Tmmf Murdoch: I was victim of hacking cover-up
Afghanistan moveClock ; //function callIntroductionPeopleEconomyResources CBS Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer between the British and Russian empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 Communist co stanley cups unter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime, touching off a long and destructive war. The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-Communist mujahedin rebels. A series of subsequent civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban, a hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country s civil war and anarchy. Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New stanley france York City, a US, Allied, and anti-Taliban Northern Alliance military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Osama BIN LADIN. The UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for poli stanley quencher tical reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. In December 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan and the National Assembly was inaugurated the following December. Despite gains toward building a stable central government, a resurgent Taliban and continuing provincial instability -

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An Australian senator with well-known anti-immigrant views has come under fire for blaming the horrific attack on the Muslim community in New Zealand mdash; a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch that left almost 50 people dead mdash; on adidas samba donna immigration rather than far-right extremism.New Zealand shooting gunman s rifles covered in white supremacist symbols popular online Does anyone still dispute the link between Muslim immigration and violence Sen. Fraser Anning of Queensland said in a tweet. Police in New Zealand have charged an Australian man with murder over the killings, which that country s leader was quick to label a terrorist attack. Does anyone still dispute the link between Muslim immigration and violence mdash; Senator Fraser Anning @fraser_anning March 15, 2019 Anning s office released a statement earlier, which was later removed from his social media pages, in which the senator was quoted as saying, the real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program wh salomon xt ich allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place. His statement, which was quickly condemned by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, began with Anning saying he was, utterly opposed to any form of violence in our community, and I totally adidas samba herren condemn the actions of the gunman. But the remarks shifted quickly to assigning the blame for the violence on the government, rather than the gunman. Morrison condemned the remarks in the statem Vypi Police prepare for search in Madeleine McCann case
More than 10,000 Afghan and U.S gourde stanley .-led coalition forces began a massive anti-Taliban operation across southern Afghanistan on Thursday, while a bomb killed seven people riding a bus to a coalition base for work.Military forces are moving forward with large-scale operations in four southern provinces, Uruzgan, Helmand, Kandahar and Zabul, the U.S. military said in a statement. It is the largest offensive since the 2001 invasion that toppled the Taliban regime. It s a sign of the fact that the Taliban have never gone away, says CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. They were heavily defeated, but they stayed in the area, and they will always come back year after year. As the offensive began, however, suspected militants continued their attacks.A bomb hidden in a bus headed to a coalition base in southern Kandahar city exploded during morning rush hour, killing seven people and injuring 17, coalition officials and the Interior Ministry said. Afghan police initially said 10 people were k stanley mugs illed. Coalition spokesman Maj. Quentin Innis blamed the attack on Taliban militants and said it clearly targeted Afghans working for the coalition. Among the dead were interpreters and workers for the air base, Afghan officials said. It s the first time Afghans working here have been deliberately targeted by the Taliban. These are local guys trying to support their families, he said.Bakery owner Amidullah said he was working in his shop wh stanley cup website en the explosion happened in front of

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STOCKHOLM -- Two researchers at American universities have been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics. Yale University s William Nordhaus was named for integrating climate change into long term macroeconomic analysis and New York University s Paul Romer was awarded for factoring technological innovation into macroeconomics.They will share the 9-million-kronor $1.01 million prize.The award, which concluded this year s series of Nobel prizes, came into existence about seven decades after the others.When Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established the prizes in his will, economics wasn t one of the undertakings he wanted honored. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established by Sweden s central bank and first given out in 1969.Whether economics is a genuine science in the sense of the Nobels awarded for accomplishments in medicine, chemistry and physics can be debated; the award often goes to work that has a high level of abstraction. Last year s win by American Richard Thaler was unusually accessible to the layman -- his work studied the human irrationality that can mess with economic theory.The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize -- the highest-profile of the Nobels -- was awarded on Friday to Congolese doctorDenis Mukwegeand Yazidi activist Nadia Murad for their work to end s samba og exual violence against women adidas originals samba as a weapon of war. adidas campus 80s More from CBS News Bhsu IranWatch: June 22
Retired U.S. Air Force General Eugene Habiger is the only American to see first hand the way Russians guard their nuclear weapons, reports CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin.He says the chances are slim that any of Russia s 25,000 nuclear weapons will ever be launched lost or stolen. The Russians are very serious, deadly serious about the safety and security of their nuclear weapons, he says. In some areas, the stanley cups ir procedures are more conservative than what we practice here in the United States. However, the real concern is not the weapons, but the more than 1,500 tons of nuclear material stored a stanley uk t sites all over Russia. The small amount needed to make a bomb is alarmingly easy to steal. In many of the facilities there is no real protection whatsoever, says Paul Robinson, the man in charge of helping the Russians get their nuclear material under lock and key. In fact, no one is even sure exactly how much there is. Click Here For Our Full CoverageThere is increasing concern that disgruntled workers at top-secret facilities where Russian nuclear material is produced may sell some of it on the black market. Highlighting those concerns is a month-old at two nuclear weapon-design laboratories where have not received their pay.The Russian navy uses enriched uraniu kubki stanley m to power its submarines, and there are two known instances in which sailors stole several pounds. In both cases, however, the culprits were caught before they could sell it. It takes only 10

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CANBERRA, Australia -- Same-sex couples married in midnight ceremonies across Australia on Tuesday after the country s last legal impediment to gay marriage expired.Marriage equality became law on Dec. 9 with overwhelming support in Parliament, but Australia s requirement that all couples give a month s notice for weddings made Tuesday the first possible date for gay marriages.Athletes Craig Burns and Luke yeezy slide Sullivan married at a midnight ceremony near the east coast city of Tweed Heads. It s another way to show your love and appreciation of your partner in front of the people in your life, said Burns, a 29-year-old sprinter who will compete in the Commonwealth Games in Australia s Gold dunk pand Coast in April.In Newcastle, north of Sydney, Rebecca Hickson, 32, married her partner of nine years, Sarah Turnbull, 34. Hickson described the divisive build-up to a gay marriage ballot preceding Parliament s vote as a horrible time. She said the couple wanted to be part of history by becoming one of the first lesbian couples to marry in Australia.American man s death in Australia ruled gay ha airforces te crimeLainey Carmichael, 51, and Roz Kitschke, 46, married shortly after dawn before 65 guests at their home in the town of Franklin in the island state of Tasmania.The early ceremony was mainly to avoid the summer heat, Kitschke said. New day; new era - and we don like the heat that much, she said.Wedding guest Rodney Croome, a long-time marriage equality advocate and spokesperson for Tasma Bvrv Rare and risky South Pole medical rescue hits crucial point
Iran s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a rotten, dried tree that will be annihilated by one storm. Opening of a conference on supporting the Palestinians, Ahmadinejad fired a series of verbal shots at Israel, saying it was a permanent threat to the Middle East that will soon be liberated, and questioning the validity of the Nazi Holocaust against Jews in World War II. Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation, Ahmadinejad said. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm, he said.The president provoked a world outcry last October when he said Israel should be wiped off the map. On Friday, he repeated his previous line on the Holocaust, saying: If such a disaster is true, why should the people of this region pay the price Why does the Palestinian nation have to be suppressed and have its land occupied . The land of Palestine, he said, referring to the British mandated territory that includes all of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, will b stanley thermobecher e freed soon. He did not say how this would be achieved, but insisted to the audience of at least 900 people: Believe that Palestine will be freed soon. The president spoke days after two Israeli generals spoke of the military stanley cups potent stanley quencher ial of Iran s nuclear program.The chief of Israeli military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, was quoted Wednesday as saying Iran could develop a nuclear bomb within three years, by the end of the decade. The day befor

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Ado Campeol, the famed owner of the Italian restaurant where tiramisu is widely thought to have been invented, died over the weekend at his home in Treviso, the region s governorannounced. He was 93. Treviso loses another one of its gastronomical stars, Luco Zaia, the governor of the Veneto region, wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. It is at his restaurant, thanks to intuition and the imagination of his wife, that was born the tiramisu, one of the most celebrated desserts in the world. Tiramisu mdash; roughly translated as pick-me-up mdash; features egg yolks whipped with mascarpone cheese, layered over coffee-soaked biscuits and topped with cocoa powder. Tiramisu has become a classic Italian dessert. Getty Images While the dessert s origins are often disputed and the family never asserted copyright over the recipe, Campeol and his wife, Alba, the owners of the restaurant Le Beccherie, have long been considered its inventors. According to local media, the dessert was added to nike air max their restaurant s menu in the 1970s.According to the BBC, Alba Campe airmax plus ol and chef Roberto Linguanottocame up with the ideafor the dessert after Linguanotto accidentally dropped some mascarpone cheese into a bowl of adidas yeezy eggs and sugar. He and Alba perfected the concoction by adding coffee-soaked ladyfingers and sprinkling it with cocoa. Tiramisu is now considered a staple of Italian gastronomy. Pgta Meet Barbara Jatta, the Vatican Museums first female director
The stanley flask whispers started in April in the mind of the 23-year-old nun.In the heart of an Orthodox convent in Romania s impoverished northeast, doctors say, Maricica Irina Cornici believed she heard the devil talking to her, telling her she was sinful.She was treated for schizophrenia, but when she relapsed, a monk and four nuns tried a different method: exorcism.Last week, Cornici was bound to a cross, gagged with a towel and left in a dank room stanley us at the convent for three days without food where she died of suffocation and dehydration.The case has stunned this impoverished nation where rural youths, many raised in orphanages like Cornici, have flocked to Orthodox monasteries and convents for spiritual help or food and shelter. Polls show the Orthodox Church to be the nation s most trusted institution. In April, Cornici was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in the northeast city of Vaslui. stanley becher She thought the devil was talking to her and told her that she was a sinful person, said Dr. Gheorghe Silvestrovici, a psychiatrist who treated her. It s a symptom of schizophrenia, and she was probably having her first episode. The nun was given medication and released on April 20 to the care of the Holy Trinity convent in the nearby village of Tanacu, an isolated community of about 1,000 people in a hilly area cultivated with vineyards and corn.She was supposed to return in 10 days, but never did. Daniel Petru Corogeanu, a 29-year-old red-bearded monk who served as the conven

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PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia -- The bodies of two more victims of the AirAsia crash near Indonesia have been found, bringing the total to 39.There are concerns that it will become harder to find the bodies of the rest of the 162 people who were on board Flight 8501 when it crashed into the Java Sea on Dec. 28. Weather becomes focus of AirAsia Flight 8501 investigation airmaxplus 02:10 Strong currents are already forcing Indonesia yeezy to expand the search area, as rough seas and bad weather make it more difficult to reach what are believed to be chunks of the plane on the ocean floor. Time is of the essence, said the National Search and Rescue Agency s director of operations, Suryadi B. Supriyadi. But it seems like it is hard to beat the weather. He says an American ship, the U adidas originals samba SS Fort Worth, has detected two large metal objects on the seabed at a depth of about 92 feet, and is trying to identify them. Seven large objects have now been located on the ocean floor that could be pieces of the fuselage, but strong currents, silt and mud have kept divers from seeing or reaching them. Indonesian authorities point to extreme cold in AirAsia crash 01:50 Svap No Survivors Found Amid Afghan Plane Wreckage
Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that abuses by government-supported Arab militias in Sudan qualify as genocide against the black African population in the Darfur region mdash; a determination that should pressure the government to rein in the fighters.Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the conclusion was based on interviews conducted with refugees from the Darfur violence as well as other evidence. We concluded that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed Arab militias bear responsibility mdash; and genocide may still be occurring, he said.He added that that as a contracting party to an international genocide convention, Sudan is obliged to prevent and punish stanley cup price acts of genocide. To us, at this time, it appears that Sudan has failed to do so, he said. Powell noted that Article VIII of the conventio stanley quencher n provides that parties to the accord may call on the United Nations to take such action under the U.N. charter as they consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide ... . Powell called on the United Nations to undertake a full investigation. To this end, the U.S. will propose that the next U.N. Security Council resolution on Sudan request a U.N. investigation into all stanley polska violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law that have occurred in Darfur, with a view to ensuring accountability, he said.He said the evidence corroborates the specific intent

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STOCKHOLM -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos used the Nobel podium in Norway on Saturday to reiterate his call to rethink the war on drugs, salomon gtx where Colombia has been the country that has paid the highest cost in deaths and sacrifices.It makes no sense to imprison a peasant who grows marijuana, when nowadays, for example, its cultivati adidas originals uomo on and use are legal in eight states of the United States, he said. Santos has argued that the decades-old U.S.-promoted war on drugs has produced enormous violence and environmental damage in nations that supply cocaine, and needs to be supplanted by a global focus on easing laws prohibiting consumption of illegal narcotics.His remarks reflected views hersquo held as far back as at least 2012, when he discussed his ideas for new approaches in the drug war in a Guardian interview. He said he would gladly participate in the drug debate, and that crocs he wouldnrsquo;t be against legalizing drugs if the world viewed it as a solution.In April this year he said: the time has come for the world to transit into a different approach in its drug policy. This is not a call for legalisation of drugs, he wrote in The Guardian. It is a call for recognition that between total war and legalisation there exists a broad range of options worth exploring if we want to take better care of drug consumers, protect our youth from drug abuse, collaborate to continue combating organi Fesd Pope Francis makes first peace appeal since taking office
China has said that tensions with Taiwan and bullying by major powers - an apparent reference to the United States - are forcing it to beef up its armed forces.In a lengthy policy paper Monday, China responded to foreign concerns about its growing military might and reiterated its threat to use force against Taiwan if it seeks independence.It also insisted that its defense expenditure remained low compared to other countries and said its military modernization is purely stanley cup for self-defense. But the paper, issued by the information office of the State Council, China s Cabinet, also said th stanley tumblers e situation with Taiwan - which Beijing regards as a renegade province - is complicated and grim. China will adopt all drastic measures possible, including the use of force, if Taiwan splits from China in any form, if foreign forces invade the island, or if Taiwan s government refuses indefinitely to discuss reunification with Beijing, the paper said. Taiwan s Defense Ministry responded by saying that the Taiwanese military has an effective system of deterrence against Chinese threats and was capable of defending the island from whatever mainland Chinese military invasion. Although Taiwan has ruled itself separately since the two sides split amid a civil war that ended 51 years ago, Beijing still wants the island to accept it is part of China - a demand the rival government in Taipei has rebuffed.The stanley cup policy paper said that because the foundation for a peaceful reunification of Chin